[aerogear-dev] [UPS] Advanced Analytics

[Sebastien Blanc]

Folks !

For AGPUSH-969[1] and to kick off the discussions,  I started a small POC
mainly focused on the backend. To sum up quickly : we want to know how many
installations/users has  opened the application after that a Push
Notification has been touched.

So, the very first thing that had to be done was to give the Push
Notification a unique identifier, so that we can track it and do the
metrics on it.

For that, I have been using an existing model object that we have , the
PushMessageInformation[2], and that is currently used to provide
information for our dashboard.
This object has now some extra fields, like a appOpenCounter etc ...

The ID of this PushMessageInformation is now passed into the payload of the
Push Message, just before we send it,  this way the client library can use
this ID to pass extra information to the UPS when a notification is
touched.
For this POC, I hijacked the cordova-helloworld, so that it extracts the ID
from the payload and pass it as header when registering.

When the UPS receive the request, it looks for the header and if it exist
it updates the existing PushMessageInformation instance.

Please note, that for this POC, all is happening on Application level and
not on Variant level but that can be easily changed. It depends on how
fined grained we want to have these analytics.

I did a small screencast that shows this in action :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PseBBJZLz6s&feature=youtu.be

The UPS branch containing the changes is here (the 2 latests commits are
relevant) :
https://github.com/sebastienblanc/aerogear-unified-push-server/tree/analytics

The client app is not really relevant since I really hacked badly the app
(and the push plugin) ;) , however if interested I may share it.

Now, let's discuss :)

Sebi

[1] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-969
[2]
https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-unifiedpush-server/blob/master/model/api/src/main/java/org/jboss/aerogear/unifiedpush/api/PushMessageInformation.java
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